Sophie and Sadie's Scholarly Site: FAB FRIDAY- More Fun Stuff from THE DOLLAR TREE and SUCH..

Friday, July 1, 2011

FAB FRIDAY- More Fun Stuff from THE DOLLAR TREE and SUCH..

5:25 PM | Posted by Fran Richardson |

Some of my latest finds at the Dollar Tree:

.
More about the puzzle and how I use them to build teams below.

Here are some other purchases from another Dollar Tree location. More treasures!

From Amazon's used books, I found several copies of Book 1 of The 39 Clues ( Maze of Bones) for $0.01 so I only paid shipping. These were hardbacks in very good condition. One is stamped Goodwill so that is another possibility for good books if you have a store nearby. I will be using the 39 Clues Book 1 as a team-building unit this year when school starts. So now I have several copies, and Amazon offered it as a free download so now I have a FREE copy on my Kindle.:)

Now to the puzzles:

I bought several of the $1.00 puzzles while we did our camping unit for The Week in The Woods. The puzzles were a "just in case we had a rainy day or a too hot to go outside day" activity. ( It got up to the high 90's here in SC before we got out the first week of June). The most popular puzzles were the 50 states and among the boys- tractors, cranes, and bulldozers. I let the camping cabins ( cooperative groups) work during morning work on a puzzle together, BUT I challenged them to not talk ( tee-hee). I was amazed at how quiet they were as they worked to solve the puzzles. We did this puzzle-solving/ teamwork activity the last few weeks of school, and the kids never tired of it. I have now decided that the idea of 1) quiet, 2) working together, and 3) solving a problem are all skills that will be something we now do with puzzles in the FIRST weeks of school this year.

Labels: classroom decor, Dollar Tree, teaching styles

0 comments:

Disclosure Policy

This policy is valid from 13 July 2011

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

To get your own policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org

Sophie and Sadie's Scholarly Site

Be a teacher like a dachshund:brave,lively,lovable, playful,clever,adapting,and always persevering .

About Me

The Scholar, Age 5

I'm A Lifelong Learner...

I Still Love Learnin'!

Still The Scholar

Our Scholar's Store

More Scholarly Stuff

My Blog List

Favorites:

FAN OF:

FAB FRIDAY- More Fun Stuff from THE DOLLAR TREE and SUCH..

0 comments:

Post a Comment

MY BELIEFS ABOUT TEACHING

PLEASE: Like, Follow, and Comment

School Snapshots

I LOVE MY JOB!

Our Class is Like FAMILY

Proud of Scholars: All Grown Up

PLEASE HELP

Supporters of My Blog

PLEASE Grab Our Button! Thanks!

New to blogging? Click here.

Classroom Blog 2011-12

Followers

THE BEST BLOGS? START HERE!:)

Blog Archive

Recent Visitors

Total Pageviews

Feedjit

Addictive Teaching Blogs

Crafts I LOVE

Carousel

Disclosure Policy